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In August, the equity markets developed in a rather positive way. A dichotomy is becoming ever more apparent, with sector performances that differ significantly. The price of gold could not maintain its historical record level above 2,000 dollars.

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    From overconfidence to overreaction? That remains to be seen. The spread of coronavirus infections outside China also contaminated equity, bond, currency and commodity markets in February.

    The Chinese coronavirus outbreak overshadowed all other financial market drivers in January. Our expert Johan Gallopyn analyses its impact on the equity, bond, currency and commodities markets.

    2019 was a year in which virtually every investment asset rose. This was also the case in December, with the exception of bonds which had to concede ground last month.

    Prospects of better trade relations between the United States and China led to rising equity prices in November. Our expert, Johan Gallopyn, analyses the most important trends in the equity, bond, currency and commodities markets for you.

    Equities advanced further in October, almost unnoted and in spite of the uncertainties. Our expert, Johan Gallopyn, analyses the most important trends in the equity, bond, currency and commodities markets for you.

  In August, the financial markets were not in a summery mood. Economic trends and escalation of the trade conflict led to significant movements in the equity, bond, currency and commodities markets.

  The Federal Reserve, Boris Johnson and the quarterly results were the 3 leading topics in July 2019. How they affected the bond, currency, commodity and equity markets? Our expert Johan Gallopyn analysed it for you.

  After an extremely weak month in May, equity markets were in June able to make up for a large portion of the losses incurred. Bond yields dropped another notch.

  In May, tensions between the US and its trading partners reversed the upward trend seen in equity markets since the beginning of this year. Safe haven investments, in turn, gained ground.

  With little in the way of news coming from the central banks and few new developments in Brexit or the trade negotiations between the US and China, in April all the attention was on company results.